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Yojimbo ( Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. 'Bodyguard') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe.
- ¥90.87 million
- Masaru Sato
- 25 April 1961 (Japan)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō, "Bodyguard") is a 1961 Japanese action drama movie directed by Akira Kurosawa and is followed up by the 1962 movie Sanjuro. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō and was distributed by Toho.
Rashomon ( Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Jidaigeki drama film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. [2] .
- Minoru Jingo
- Fumio Hayasaka
- August 25, 1950
Yojimbo (用心棒 (Dụng tâm bổng), Yōjinbō?) là bộ phim thuộc thể loại Jidaigeki của cố đạo diễn Akira Kurosawa và gây một số ảnh hưởng nhất định đến các đạo diễn khác. Bộ phim được công chiếu vào ngày 25 tháng 4 năm 1961 với thời lượng 110 phút.
- Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
- Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
Yojimbo, Japanese action film, released in 1961, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira. It was inspired by Dashiell Hammett ’s detective novels, including Red Harvest (1929) and The Glass Key (1931), and was patterned after American westerns, especially the lone-hero films of John Ford, and in turn Yojimbo inspired Italian ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
Katsuichi – Katsuichi is one of the most formidable swordsmen in the series. His name is said by Stan Sakai to be a combination of katsu ("to win") and ichi ("one"), or "one who wins". He is an anthropomorphic lion samurai sensei who rejected the orthodox fighting styles to create a distinctive new technique.
Yojimbo is possibly Akira Kurosawa's best-known film in the West, a samurai sword-fighting movie that, though entirely Japanese, still resonates nicely for Americans used to their own period gunfighting film genre, the western, the "grammar" of which Kurosawa learned from John Ford, just as Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood in turn learned from Yo...
